New Orleans Neighborhoods at a Critical Point, Says Activist
Without additional recovery contributions, New Orleans’s neighborhoods won’t reach their potential and run the risk of becoming less stable over time, says a community activist.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Churches Slow to Embrace Technology
Study finds Catholic churches aren’t providing online information that their parishioners want.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Site Simulates Vision Disorders
Lighthouse International, in New York, has developed a low-vision simulator for its new Web site that shows how people with eye disease see the world. Visitors to the site can pick a YouTube video or use one of their own videos and then select a filter that simulates retinitis pigmentosa, macular…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Reach Advocates Via Cellphone
Text messagesing show promise as a tool for advocacy, according to a new report that looks at the results of six organizations’ mobile programs. The report was published by M+R Strategic Services, a consulting company in Washington, and MobileActive.org, a network of activists and nonprofit groups…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New York charity is using new technology to make city residents more aware of the local homelessness problems and to reach out to new donors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
As Haiti’s Rainy Season Begins, Relief Groups Work to Provide Shelter to Quake Victims
Nonprofit groups seek to provide temporary housing, based on lessons about what has worked in other disasters, and look ahead to the need to build permanent housing.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Facebook Co-Founder Starts Philanthropic Social-Networking Site
Facebook co-founder hopes his new charity site, Jumo, will make it impossible for people to say they’d like to help but don’t know where or how to do so.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A N.Y. Charity Enlists Teenage Students to Help Document Their Overseas Work
New York City’s YMCA trained teenagers who participate in its global community-service trips to take photographs and videos of their experiences. Now the organization can offer donors and potential participants an inside view of how the trips work.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Attitudes Toward Charities in Marketing Partnerships: a New Survey
More than three-quarters of consumers say that a marketing partnership between a charity and a company they trust makes a charitable cause stand out, according to a new survey.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Using Light Display to Raise Awareness and Money
Pathways to Housing, in New York, is experimenting with a light installation and text messaging to call attention to the problem of homelessness -- and to reach out to new donors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor